A great part of owning movies and TV shows is sharing your collection. You can help your parents understand why everyone now “volunteers as tribute,” or get your roommate to finish watching Breaking Bad so he finally understands all the references.

Sharing is a great way to get the most value from your collection, introduce people to some great movies and TV shows, and even become a little closer as family and friends.

Share My Movies lets you invite up to five people to join and watch your Library of UltraViolet movies and TV shows. You only need a VUDU account and an UltraViolet Library to start. (You can do both on VUDU.com. They’re free and take only seconds).

Share My Movies is a safer way to share because the people you invite get their own username and password. You never have to give out yours. This means you can get the most value out of your purchases, show off your collection AND never have to worry about accidental purchases or changes to your account.

And since invited users watch through their own VUDU accounts, they can use their favorite devices without it counting toward your VUDU device limit. They can download or stream your movies and shows on just about any device—from a smartphone to a smart TV. Share My Movies also supports up to three simultaneous streams, so you can watch together, even when apart.

And the best part of Share My Movies is that it’s free. No extra fees, no subscriptions (or subscription tiers) and no limit on number of viewings. Thousands of UltraViolet movies and TV shows are already available to own and share, and more are added all the time.

Share My Movies by VUDU is open to all users, so invite your friends and family to discover VUDU and your collection of digital movies and TV shows.

I have a VUDU and UV account and i have a nice little collection going of mostly UV movies. I invited my friend Jay to share movies. he created both accounts of his own but can not see anything of mine. I realize only 1 vudu account can link to a UV account so how would he be able to see my movies. I have a ticket open already with vudu but no responce yet. Any help would be great

Your friend Jay will have to unlink from his UltraViolet Library and then link to your UltraViolet Library (multiple VUDU accounts can be linked to one UltraViolet Library; only one UltraViolet Library can be linked to a VUDU account at a time). When he clicked on your invitation, it sounds like he chose the option to create his own UltraViolet Library. He can unlink from his UltraViolet Library in the “UltraViolet Info” page when logged in on VUDU.com, then go back to your invitation email, click through, and connect to your UltraViolet Library instead.

I’ve added my friend to my list (she’s the first and only that I’ve attempted to do this for) and yet she is not getting an invitation. I thought maybe it was operator error, so I invited myself (under a different email) and didn’t receive the invite either. I’ve checked spam, promos, social, etc. on gmail and it is just not there. I always get emails from Vudu without a problem, so I’m not sure what we’re doing wrong. Thanks for any help to clear this up!

Never mind. We figured it out. I had checked spam, Promotions, and Social tabs in Gmail, but had not checked “All Mail”. Apparently this is a common issue for Vudu invite emails. (Strange because I get ALL of their other emails). Anyway, I withdraw my question.

My son had invited me to share his library and we were able to see each others library’s. Worked great until we decided to invite my father.

This sharing thing is so confusing. Anyhow, as I was trying to recall the steps I took to link to my son’s library, I click the button to unlink from his library and now I am unable to go back to it. I tried clicking the original invite and it states that the invite had expired. Then tried to have my son resend invite and he is presented with a statement that reads ‘invitation has already been sent’. My son is still able to view my library, but I have lost the ability to see his.

How can I link back to my son’s library? Also, what steps would my father need to take to link to my son’s library? My father currently has both a vudu and UV accounts.

I’ve shared my collection with my friend. He’s only seeing 515 of the 555 movies I own. One of the missing movies is ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’, if this is relevant. Are there any restrictions that would prevent him from seeing my entire collection?

Are you unable to reconnect your VUDU account to his UltraViolet Library? You should use the same username and password that you set up when joining his library. If you forgot this information, your son can visit http://www.uvvu.com, log in with his UltraViolet username/email address, and then find your login email under the My Account > User Settings section.

Your father can join if your son sends an invite to him (use the UltraViolet invitation feature on VUDU.com). When your father goes through the process, he will have to unlink from his UltraViolet Library before he links to your son’s.
Please note that the feature allows multiple VUDU accounts to connect to one UltraViolet Library, but not multiple accounts to connect to multiple UltraViolet libraries at the same time.

Only UltraViolet movies and TV shows can be shared, so if the TV shows in your account are not from a studio or provider that is part of the UltraViolet standard, it is not eligible for Share My Movies. Hope this helps.

Jchang – I shared my vudu library with my sister who just set up her vudu account today. Her son also wants to share his library with her. It is my understanding that someone can only be linked to one ultraviolet account at a time. So, will she have to unlink from my ultraviolet and then link to her son’s ultraviolet account to see his movies? If this is the case, would she be subject to the rule that one can only link and unlink to a library twice? Or, would she be able to go back and forth between the two?

Not all TV shows are UltraViolet compatible. You can see which ones are on the details pages and looking for the UltraViolet icon. More studios are trying to include more TV shows as UltraViolet so you should see more as time goes on.

My friend sent me an invite from his library and we are linked, I was wondering when I redeem a film through my own account, it still goes to me, right? I just want some clarification, in case for whatever reason we unlink.

If you are linked to your friend’s UltraViolet Library, you are a ‘non-primary’ member of the Library. If you redeem an UltraViolet movies, the UltraViolet rights go to your friend’s UltraViolet Library. However, you do keep the VUDU rights, and can always view it on VUDU, even if you unlink.